I am happy to be here, and I am thankful for the opportunity to get out of Washington and to hear directly from you about an issue that could have significant consequences for a lot of people in Alabama and across this country.

It is a privilege to live in this great country, and we would not be able to live in this country if it were not for veterans like Colonel Carey.

I think the person who signs my paycheck is my employer. In my case it is me.

I think one of the things in the joint employer model that they are looking at was just rebutted by both Colonel Carey and Mr. Holmes.

Why in the world would we give that up? I was elected by a secret ballot.

I found it absolutely amazing that Planned Parenthood could complain about a woman having an ultrasound before she terminates her pregnancy, and then uses an ultrasound so they can harvest body parts to be sold for fetal tissue.

I'd like to know what your recommendations are to put this on a more sustainable course.

I found this incredibly offensive to me as a physician and as an obstetrician.

Could you tell us what you've done to investigate these activities?

You need to look at those videos to see what the rest of us have looked at.

I think the Choice program, as I understand it, as we envisioned it, was to help get rid of the backlog.

I don't understand why 60 percent of the money went to the bureaucracy and $200 million of it actually went to get veterans in to see me as a doctor.